This is Cygne! (I used to be 'Cyngenoir' ). I'm a huge Pavlenko fan. I'm very tempted to book a Paris
trip to see her in the Forsythe and Balanchine programs, but it
doesn't look too healthy over there right now. I hope the unrest gets under control for their tour in a few weeks. I agree with you Fedora and Catherine. The late Anton Dolin said this about another great ballerina Yvette Chauvire: " . . . her great quality as a ballerina was HONESTY: Everything you saw her do onstage was real. There was no camouflage and there were no tricks." That statement applies to Daria Pavlenko.

No, Pykhachev was Birbanto on September 28, and by the time of the last Corsaire the company was back in St. P. I would imagine that, as did Osipenko when she was put in the act 1 corps of Giselle for Kolpakova's London opening in 1970, he tried to disguse himself.

Hi Cygne and I agree that caution is always a good thing. But from the reports I have seen, the very serious disturbances are in the poorest suberbs where tourists and the Caucasian French rarely go.....perhap that is part of the problem.

We will all make our own decisions, but, speaking for myself, I would not be deterred from going to central Paris at the moment on grounds of safety.

If I have got ths wrong, I hope our Paris-based readers will correct me.

No, Pykhachev was Birbanto on September 28, and by the time of the last Corsaire the company was back in St. P. I would imagine that, as did Osipenko when she was put in the act 1 corps of Giselle for Kolpakova's London opening in 1970, he tried to disguse himself.

Ripowam, sorry but Islom Baimuradov danced Birbanto on Oct 28. Follow link to photo of him taking his bows:

It's a wonderful album, fedora. Please let me know how I can contribute to the cause (ha-ha). We really must keep this wonderful photographer 'in business' for as long as possible! Perhaps he or she will attend Maya Dumchenko's 'Sleeping Beauty' on Wednesday?

The photos are a great compliment to Catherine's reports, of course. The reports come first.

It's objective & not subjective, fedora. The photos document who danced & how they looked at the end of the performance. That helps people familiarize themselves with the dancers. On the next U.S. or U.K. tour, folks will know who REALLY danced what. It exposes the utter falacy of most printed programmes, on Kirov tours.

I was joking about asking your friend to document Dumchenko's Beauty! Of course, there is no need to embarrass her. We're grateful for whichever performance pics can be shared. How lovely that today's technology allows this to happen.

Not just the advanced casting, Cassandra! Even that which is written in the programme...or the errata sheet in the programme...or even changes announced over the loudspeaker one minute prior to curtain...can be wrong. ugh.

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